Advanced Open Water

The Advanced Open Water Course helps you become more comfortable in the water while continuing to build confidence, refine skills and acquire new ones. This course will introduce you to new activities and take you to greater depths.

Basic Advanced Open Water Group Class $289

This class has 2-8 student divers

Gain additional Drift Diving experience

Learn to do deeper dives

Use an SMB safety marker buoy

Use a reel

Deploy an SMB from depth using your reel

Additional safe Boat Diving experience

Improved buoyancy control techniques

Additional underwater navigation techniques

Blue Heron Bridge dive

One two-tank boat dive

Discover Nitrox for the boat diving adventures at no additional cost

10% off tanks and any needed rentals

Expanded Advanced Open Water $369

This class has 2-8 student divers

Learning to do deeper dives

Gain additional Drift Diving experience

Use an SMB safety marker buoy

Use a reel

Deploy an SMB from depth using your reel

Additional safe Boat Diving experience

Improved buoyancy control techniques

Additional underwater navigation techniques

Discover Nitrox for the boat diving adventures at no additional cost

Blue Heron Bridge dive for navigation, buoyancy, search & recovery

Two days of two-tank boat diving

Private Advanced Open Water $519 per student

Gaining additional Drift Diving experience

Use an SMB safety marker buoy

Learn to do deeper dives

Use a reel

Deploy an SMB from depth using your reel

Additional safe Boat Diving experience

Improved buoyancy control techniques

Additional underwater navigation techniques

Discover Nitrox for the boat diving adventures at no additional cost

Two days of two-tank boat diving

This class works on a customized schedule organized by Stuart Scuba and the student diver. This course is closed to other divers and training venues are restricted. Please contact the store for details on any Private Courses.

Course/Equipment Prerequisites & Recommendations:

Open Water Certification is mandatory and Enriched Air Nitrox Certification is highly recommended. Using this gas will allow you more no-decompression dive time and is especially useful for the dive profiles in this class.

Mask, Fins, Snorkel & Whistle

Surface Marker Buoy (SMB) & Reel

BCD, Regulator with gauges, computer, compass (rentals available but at this level you should have your own gear)